{"title":"Curt Sampson","description":"Curt Sampson enjoyed modest success as a junior, amateur, and college golfer but was a dud, he says, as a club and touring professional. The author of three other books, he lives in Bristol, Texas, with his wife and two children.","products":[{"product_id":"hogan-a-biography-paperback","title":"Hogan: A Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBen Hogan won four U.S. Opens in six years, three of them after a near-fatal head-on automobile collision. Driven by an obsessive dedication to the game, legend has it, he practiced until his hands bled. The concentration and precision he exhibited on the course awed spectators and fellow players alike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extraordinary book--the first full-scale biography of the enigmatic Hogan in twenty years--Curt Sampson explores the milestones of Hogan's life--his father's suicide, his miraculous comeback after his brush with death, his many triumphs on the Tour. Sampson draws on interviews with fellow golf legends Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead to present an in-depth portrait of a man with bullet-proof confidence and singlemindedness, a man who turned the negatives he encountered into a life of glory and achievement.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Hogan won four U.S. Opens in six years, three of them after a near-fatal head-on automobile collision. Driven by an obsessive dedication to the game, legend has it, he practiced until his hands bled. The concentration and precision he exhibited on the course awed spectators and fellow players alike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extraordinary book--the first full-scale biography of the enigmatic Hogan in twenty years--Curt Sampson explores the milestones of Hogan's life--his father's suicide, his miraculous comeback after his brush with death, his many triumphs on the Tour. Sampson draws on interviews with fellow golf legends Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead to present an in-depth portrait of a man with bullet-proof confidence and singlemindedness, a man who turned the negatives he encountered into a life of glory and achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51289958351071,"sku":"9780553061949","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EONpoQAlvy9780553061949.webp?v=1787979132"},{"product_id":"the-eternal-summer-palmer-nicklaus-and-hogan-in-1960-golfs-golden-year-paperback","title":"The Eternal Summer: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWas there ever a year in golf like 1960? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the workingman's hero, \"sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying\"; Ben Hogan, the greatest player of the fifties, a perfectionist battling twin demons of age and nerves; and, making his big-time debut, a crew-cut college kid who seemed to have the makings of a champion: twenty-year-old Jack Nicklaus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd of course, the rest: Ken Venturi, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Doug Sanders, Gary Player, and the many other colorful characters who chased around a little white ball--and a dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWould Palmer win the mythical Grand Slam of golf? Could Hogan win one more major tournament? Was Nicklaus the real thing? Even more than an intimate portrait of these men and their exciting times, \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Summer\u003c\/i\u003e is also an entertaining, perceptive, and hypnotically readable exploration of professional golf in America.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas there ever a year in golf like 1960?\u003cbr\u003e It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the workingman's hero, \"sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying\"; Ben Hogan, the greatest player of the fifties, a perfectionist battling twin demons of age and nerves; and, making his big-time debut, a crew-cut college kid who seemed to have the makings of a champion: twenty-year-old Jack Nicklaus.\u003cbr\u003e And of course, the rest: Ken Venturi, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Doug Sanders, Gary Player, and the many other colorful characters who chased around a little white ball--and a dream.\u003cbr\u003e Would Palmer win the mythical Grand Slam of golf? Could Hogan win one more major tournament? Was Nicklaus the real thing? Even more than an intimate portrait of these men and their exciting times, The Eternal Summer is also an entertaining, perceptive, and hypnotically readable exploration of professional golf in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51292793241823,"sku":"9780375753688","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oeTMyl4Cnc9780375753688.webp?v=1788047521"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/curt-sampson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}